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SUPREME COURT ACT 1986 - SECT 14D

Determination of application for leave to appeal

    (1)     The Court of Appeal constituted by one or more Judges of Appeal may determine an application for leave to appeal under section 14A with or without an oral hearing of the parties.

    (2)     Subject to subsection (3), if the Court of Appeal dismisses an application for leave to appeal without an oral hearing, the applicant, in accordance with the Rules, may apply to have the dismissal set aside or varied at an oral hearing before the Court of Appeal constituted by two or more Judges of Appeal.

    (3)     If the Court of Appeal dismisses an application for leave to appeal without an oral hearing and has determined that the application is totally without merit, the applicant has no right to apply to have the dismissal set aside or varied.

    (4)     This section does not apply to—

        (a)     an appeal from a refusal to grant habeas corpus; or

S. 14D(4)(b) amended by No. 27/2018 s. 367(3).

        (b)     an appeal under the Serious Offenders Act 2018 .

No. 6387
ss 37, 44.

S. 15 substituted by No. 109/1994 s. 20.



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